1922 Finnish parliamentary election

General election Finland state-1920 parliamentary 1919 Finnish parliamentary election 1919 1924 Finnish parliamentary election 1924 All 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland 101 1–3 July 1922 130x130px Väinö Tanner.jpg Väinö Tanner Social Democratic Party of Finland 37.98%, 80 seats 53 216,861 25.06% 12.92pp Pekka Ville Heikkinen, 1958 (cropped).jpg Pekka Heikkinen Agrarian League (Finland) 19.70%, 42 seats 45 175,401 20.27% 3 0.57pp AnttiTulenheimo.jpg Antti Tulenheimo National Coalition Party 15.71%, 26 seats 35 157,116 18.15% 9 2.44pp Niilo-Wallari-1955.jpg Niilo Wälläri Socialist Workers' – 27 128,181 14.81% new new 27 Eric von Rettig Swedish People's Party of Finland 12.13%, 22 seats 25 3 107,414 12.41% 0.28pp Aimo Cajander Prime Minister Independent Prime Minister after election Kyösti Kallio Agrarian League (Finland) OskariMantere.jpg Oskari Mantere National Progressive Party (Finland) 12.81%, 26 seats 15 11 79,676 9.21% 3.60pp Parliamentary elections were held in Finland between 1 and 3 July 1922.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p606 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Social Democratic Party remained the largest in Parliament with 53 of the 200 seats. The caretaker government of Professor Aimo Cajander (Progressive), that President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg had appointed in June 1922, following the resignation of Prime Minister Juho Vennola (Progressive), remained in office until Kyösti Kallio formed an Agrarian-Progressive minority government in November 1922. Voter turnout was 58.5%.Nohlen & Stöver, p613 Background By 1922, the Finnish society, economy and politics had begun to stabilize. The Progressive (liberal) President Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg had pardoned many Red (socialist) prisoners of the Finnish Civil War, the worst poverty caused by World War I and the Civil War was over, and the Agrarian leader, Kyösti Kallio, was preparing a law (Lex Kallio) that would distribute the excess farmlands of wealthy landowners to the former tenant farmers and other landless rural people. The Social Democrats, led by Väinö Tanner, had committed themselves to the peaceful and democratic pursuit of socialist reform goals. The mostly Agrarian-Progressive minority governments pursued moderate and conciliatory policies. Compulsory schooling of Finnish children was enacted in 1921. The Communists dared to organize the Socialist Workers' Party before the elections, so they preferred open political activity to underground political activity. Shortly before the election campaign officially started, the Finnish Parliament rejected a five-year defence treaty between Finland, Poland, Latvia and Estonia. Enough deputies doubted the ability of Poland and the Baltic countries to defend Finland during a real war.Seppo Zetterberg et al., eds., A Small Giant of the Finnish History / Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen, Helsinki: WSOY, 2003, pages 619–620, 629–630, 672Pentti Virrankoski, A History of Finland 1&2 / Suomen historia 1&2, Helsinki: Finnish Literary Society / Suomalaisen kirjallisuuden seura, 2009, pages 786–787, 791, 797–800 Results File:1922 Eduskunta.svg Social Democratic Party 216861 53 –27 Agrarian League 175401 45 +3 National Coalition Party 157116 35 +7 Socialist Workers' Party 128181 27 New Swedish People's Party 107414 25 +3 National Progressive Party 79676 15 –11 Others 772 0 – 5404 0 1489022 Nohlen & Stöver See also List of members of the Parliament of Finland, 1922–1924 History of Finland Finland in the inter-war era References Category:Parliamentary elections in Finland Parliament Finland